Carpet Industry Targets 3 Billion Dollars of Export in 2021
TIM Carpet Industry Board meeting was held with the participation of TIM President İsmail Gülle. Kaplan made an assessment about the meeting held with video conferencing method and where the 2021 targets of the sector were discussed. Kaplan said that 2020 was a difficult year in the carpet industry, as in all sectors.
Drawing attention to the fact that the carpet sector is among the few sectors that increase its exports, Kaplan explained that they will work to eliminate the problems in the container issue with Saudi Arabia’s applications for Turkish goods.
“We set a target of 3 billion dollars”
Kaplan stated that they will continue to search for new markets and continue to work to solve the problems by increasing their share in existing markets. Salahattin Kaplan continued as follows: “We will make an effort to establish a facility where we can produce our own raw materials in order to prevent the import of raw materials, which is our most important problem. We are doing preliminary studies on this subject. Exports exceed our targets in 2020 and we set a target of 3 billion dollars for 2021. The Turkish business world successfully survives difficult times. Last year is the best example of this. While we work well in our lesson in the new year and achieve new goals.”
Carpet Exports Increased by 10 Percent in January-February 2021 Period
Our carpet exports in the January-February period of 2021 compared to the same period of the previous year; It increased by 10.1 percent and amounted to 482.6 million dollars.
Carpet exports in February 2021 increased by 14 percent compared to February 2020, reaching a value of $ 247.1 million.
Most Carpet Export to USA
The top five countries with the highest carpet exports made in the January-February period of 2021 are as follows.
The USA comes first with $ 186,542 million, followed by Germany with $ 29,468 million, the UK with $ 23,103 million, the United Arab Emirates with $ 21,079 million and Egypt with $ 18,021.
Machine Carpet Exports Increased
Turkey’s handmade carpet exports during January-February 2021 decreased by 16 percent compared to the same period of 2020, export value was recorded as approximately 6.3 million dollars.
Machine-made carpet exports increased by 11.8 percent in the January-February period of 2021, while the export value was recorded as approximately 416 million dollars.
Turkey’s carpet exports in the January-February period tufted carpet 2021 increased by 3.6 percent compared to the same period of 2020, export value was about 59.2 million dollars.
